Swaziland king’s 12th wife caught cheating with Justice minister

The 12th wife of the King of Swaziland, a former Miss Teen beauty contestant, has been placed under house arrest after she was allegedly caught with her lover, the Justice Minister.

Mswati Nothando Dube, 22, and the married minister, Ndumiso Mamba, were reportedly discovered by police in what is thought to have been a ‘’sting” operation at the Royal Villas hotel in a town near Mbabane, the kingdom’s capital.

With King Mswati III, 42, away on a state visit to Taiwan, she has reportedly been placed under surveillance at her mother-in-law’s home and Mr Mamba is in jail on the king’s orders.

If convicted of the rather odd-sounding charge of ‘trespassing into another man’s home’, Mamba, who was once a close friend of the king, could be executed.